Salleh ben joned biography of martin luther

A firebrand.

Salleh ben joned biography of martin luther

A raconteur. A rebel with a cause. All have been used to describe the late Malaysian poet-writer Salleh Ben Joned ().

But what about Salleh Ben Joned, the man who lived as passionately as he loved?

In the newly-released memoir/poetry and prose collection Salleh Ben Joned – Truth, Beauty, Amok And Belonging, Salleh’s eldest daughter Anna Salleh attempts to piece together the stories, impressions and artefacts he left behind to curate a collage telling his life’s story and literary journey.

The book, launched at the George Town Literary Festival over the weekend, chronicles key life events in Salleh’s life that shaped him and his work, from how he fell in love with poetry as a young boy from Bukit Rambai, Melaka (who later went to study at Malacca High School) and his formative years in Australia as a rebellious university student in (under a Colombo Plan scholarship) to finding his f